Ted Nugent Bills New Tour ‘Black Power 2013′

Musician Ted Nugent, left, is pictured before the State of the Union address by U.S. President Barack Obama on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 12, 2013.

Black power and Ted Nugent might look at first glance like wholly incompatible concepts, but the right-wing rocker doesn’t see it that way: Nugent is calling his next tour “Black Power 2013” in honor, he says, of the African-American musicians who have inspired his “fire-breathing musical career.”

It was part of a column Nugent wrote Thursday on the conservative website World Net Daily, in which he blasted “Democratic politicians who have raped and plundered black America forever,” citing examples including the New Deal and Great Society and rolling out a bevy of statistics about poverty, education and crime in black communities.

While Democrats, in Nugent’s view, aren’t doing their black constituents any favors, the author of “Cat Scratch Fever” and “Wango Tango” said he holds “the tapestry of black America” in higher regard.

“I don’t celebrate Black History Month,” wrote the singer, who couldn’t be reached for further comment. “I celebrate it every day, as my very black-inspired musical dreams could not have been successful were it not for black Americans,” including Bo Diddley, James Brown and Chuck Berry. He closed the column by paraphrasing Brown: “Say it loud: My music is black and I’m proud!”

Nugent didn’t specify when his Black Power 2013 tour begins, though he has dates scheduled with REO Speedwagon and Styx beginning April 18 in Grand Forks, N.D., and continuing through May 19 in Burgettstown, Pa.

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